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Lucian Freud

Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.

– Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won’t.

– Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

– Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

– Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.

– Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

The painter’s obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

– Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

– Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.

– Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

The character of the artist doesn’t enter into the nature of the art.

– Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture… it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

– Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

– Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

Now that I know what I want, I don’t have to hold on to it quite so much.

– Lucian Freud

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